Matthias Mölleney

Director of the Center for Human Resources Management & Leadership at the Zurich School of Economics

Associate professor and lecturer at a variety of universities and business schools

President of the ZGP Zurich Association for Personnel Management

Director at the Future Work Forum, London

President of PERIKOM

President of the “Think Tank Thurgau”

Member of the Board of Directors at Belair Airlines AG (Air Berlin Switzerland)

Author of the book “Make the Future Possible”, as well as various professional articles about leadership and personnel management

Successful consultation of numerous companies ranging from SMEs to global players in the areas of HR strategy, leadership, change management and personnel policy

Leadership, personnel management and the ability to cope with change will make the difference between success and failure. My years of experience in the leadership teams of Lufthansa, Swissair and a wide range of other internationally-active companies proved this to me over and over again. «As times get tougher, human resource management needs to become better and better.»In 2006, my wife, Regine, and I founded the company “PeopleXpert”. We don’t market off-the-shelf concepts or management models, but rather put all of our effort into what you need and what will strenghten your personnel expertise.

This may include, for example, the joint development of a new personnel strategy, a specialized leadership training program for your management team or intensive individual coaching sessions for someone who finds himself in the career-change mode. In our range of consulting activities, we combine the “know” with the “how”. This means blending the most current findings from research and teachings with our own personal experience from a range of consulting projects with diverse companies and from many fields – from SMEs to international organizations. As the President of the ZGP Zurich Association for Personnel Management and Director of the Future Work Forum in London I am also ideally networked with numerous national and international experts.

Reading Recommendations

Frederic Laloux: Reinventing Organizations

18 Mar 2018

A very interesting insight into the work of Frederic Laloux on the topic of modern organizations.

Innovative book explaining new ways in HR marketing

Deloitte: Global Human Capital Trends 2016

14 Apr 2016

Interesting study focusing on the latest trends in people management and organizational development. After a number of years of struggling to drive employee engagement and retention, and improve leadership, executives see a need to redesign the organization itself.

5C-Framework for Managing Talent (Randall Schuler)

What makes teams successful

21 Nov 2015

Interesting essay in the Tagesanzeiger (in German): Google has done research on the factors which makes teams particularly innovative. Surprisingly, the skills of the team members are not the most important factors.

23.11.2015: interesting SF TV Feature

Future of Work Study

06 Oct 2015

An interesting study by Bill Jensen (www.simplerwork.com) with a fresh look at the future of work. Based on feedback by 7’635 people around the world, the study highlights the following 3 issues: How long will leaders hold back the future? We are asking the wrong questions. The future of work is personal.

The "Think Tank" coming together with the people

06 Apr 2015

He is the new president of the Think Tank Thurgau: Matthias Mölleney explains why the Thurgau idea forgers would like to interact more closely with the people in the future.

How to run a company with (almost) no rules

It's time to blow up HR and build something new (HBR)

09 July 2015

Businesses don’t create value; people do. Research by McKinsey and the Conference Board consistently finds that CEOs worldwide see human capital as a top challenge, and they rank HR as only the eighth or ninth most important function in a company. That has to change.

Offer

We combine the «know» with the «how»

Presentations and workshops:

Leadership, personnel management, HRM 2030, future development of the workplace, coping with change, crisis management, employer attractiveness to a variety of age groups, work-life balance.

Consulting projects:

Development of personnel strategies, reorientation of personnel management, design of leadership guidelines, establishment of an HR Shared Service Center, work schedule models, set up of a learning organization.

Publications, Presentations & Videos

My weekly newsletter

An introduction of the concept «Beyond Leadership»

18 Nov 2018

Prof. Dr. Sybille Sachs, Patrick Cowden and I are writing a book, currently, about the very innovative leadership concept «Beyond Leadership», which enables teams and organizations to improve the 3 most important factors trust, respect and appreciation in a very efficient and yet sustainable way. Until the book will be published in early summer 2019, you may download a short introduction here.

Leadership needs Followership (in German)

05 Oct 2018

The times of almighty and omniscient leaders are gone. Bigger companies in particular have come to the conclusion that a single person at the top of a large organization cannot cope with the demand for agility and complexity. Traditional hierarchies have been improved over many decades and are still working, but they are too slow in a competition where speed is much more relevant than size.

We don't need faster horses (in German)

30 Sept 2018

in order to achieve significant improvements in HR, we don’t need faster horses. We should think about inventing cars instead. Therefore, we need to be more open in selecting the people we discuss with. And we need to question the unquestionable.

What a robot is allowed to learn

Management of Breaks

20 Oct 2016

Taking a break is important. That we know, but many managers still believe that breaks are for “softies” only. Why we should really take breaks? Why should be rethink our understanding of working time in general? The interview with Matthias Moelleney from the Lyreco Magazin (in German) has some answers.

Digitalization for HRM: fundamental change (Article in German)

Generation Y - A Challenge for Government and Administration (German)

31 Jan 2016

Everybody is talking about generation Y – but primarily from an employer’s perspective. How should governments and public administration adapt to cope with this new generation and its expectations? Where can we find new opportunities?